Sentences with phrase «young film director»

When Les, a young film director, goes back to his old Brooklyn enclave to shoot a movie, he has no idea what he's getting himself into.

Not exact matches

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

A film director has dreams of a Hollywood romance a young millionai..

Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy hits all the right notes that should guarantee the film's appeal to young and old joystick junkies who, despite outward appearances, harbor sentimental hearts.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

Though director George Sluizer (The Vanishing) originally ceased production of Dark Blood when the film's young star Phoenix died tragically at 23, the film arrived onscreen nearly 20 years after its original scheduled release date.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

The film focuses on N.J. (Wu Nien - jen, a noted writer - director in his own right) a partner in a computer firm who is married to Min - min (Elaine Jin) and has two kids, teenager Ting - ting (Kelly Lee) and young Yang - yang (Jonathan Chang).

The days of gritty roles and provocative films is the fare of younger directors.

Why else would the director not devote a single moment in the film's 105 - minute running time to trying to understand what distinguished the young author from his contemporaries?

From a young age, Clark Duke has worked on a diverse slate of projects in television, film and new media as a writer, actor, director, and producer.

The younger Castle attended the USC film school, where he befriended fellow aspiring director John Carpenter.

The writer and director is Kari Skogland, a young Canadian whose previous film, «The Stone Angel» (2007), could not be more different.

He frequently showed up in the films of directors Cecil B. DeMille and John Ford; in Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, he played small - town lout Scrub White, whose murder sets in motion the film's classic courtroom finale.

Film director Adam Rifkin spoofs Hollywood's star machine in concocting this fictional «mockumentary» about a director (Rifkin playing himself) who wants to make a documentary film about a rising young star.

The latest film from director Wes Anderson — and his first live - action film since 2007's The Darjeeling Limited 67 — tells the story of young Sam and Suzy (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward), who run away together, sending a small New England island community into a panic.

Aided by a lively young cast (headed by ex-Harry Potter star Emma Watson), the writer - director creates a film that entertains as much as it appalls.

As Bogdanovich, playing young - and - hungry director Sammy Michaels, desperately tries to convince Orlock to star in just one more picture, the film's attentions shift to Vietnam veteran Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly).

Ford became best known for his Westerns, of which he made dozens through the 1920s, but he didn't achieve status as a major director until the mid -»30s, when his films for RKO (The Lost Patrol [1934], The Informer [1935]-RRB-, 20th Century Fox (Young Mr. Lincoln [1939], The Grapes of Wrath [1940]-RRB-, and Walter Wanger (Stagecoach [1939]-RRB-, won over the public, the critics, and earned various Oscars and Academy nominations.

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It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

The exceptions hover film greatness: Rebel Without a Cause, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dazed and Confused, The Breakfast Club, and Say Anything... Along comes young director James Ponsoldt and his adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel.

Elysium will mark the young directors second film and ever since its announcement not much has been said about the film other than it was going to be in the sci - fi genre with a lot of underlying sociopolitical messages.

He was the younger brother of fellow film director Ridley Scott.

The Help's director has recruited some of the cast from that film to assist in telling this story, with Viola Davis as Brown's negligent mother, who walked out on the family when he was young, only to show up again when he becomes well known, and Octavia Spencer as his aunt, who helps care for him.

Disney and Lucasfilm have tapped The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller to write and direct a young Han Solo Star Wars spin - off film.

1978: Matthew Bennell (a young and curly - haired Donald Sutherland), a health inspector living in San Francisco, goes on the run from a growing population of «replacements» in this creepy sci - fi film from director Philip Kaufman.

The trailers look impressive and have an energy, but first - time director Rupert Sanders falls in love with his own work that all that energy is sucked out of the film like Ravenna sucking the life out of young maidens.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the directors of the upcoming young Han Solo film, confirmed on the official Star Wars site that Woody Harrelson is joining the ensemble of the Han Solo: A Star Wars Story (Not final title) film, following reports last week that Lucasfilm and Disney definitively moved on from Christian Bale for the role of Solo's mentor.

They'd been friends with the film's director, David Gordon Green, for nearly a decade, ever since he gave the Austin, Texas - based experimental - rock instrumental quartet its first significant movie placement in his 2003 film All The Real Girls (which happened to feature a young Zooey Deschanel as a co-lead).

Debuting at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival was Japanese director Iwai Shunji's Vampire (review), a film about a young schoolteacher (Kevin...

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

With a synthy score by Brooklyn duo Fall On Your Sword (who also scored last year's Sundance hit «Another Earth» as well as director Ry Russo - Young's first film «You Won't Miss Me»), L.A. seems really cool.

Theoretically, this could be quite salutary, as Reygadas is developing into one of the world's most interesting and consistently surprising directors; his Post Tenebras Lux is easily one of the most anticipated Cannes competition films (and happens to be my advance pick as most likely to win the Palme d'Or), and younger Mexican and South American filmmakers unabashedly look to Reygadas as a model of artistic independence to follow.

Director: Alfonso Gomez - Rejon Writers: Jesse Andrews (based on his novel) Cast: Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke, RJ Cyler, Nick Offerman Synopsis: A teenage boy working on a film befriends a young girl with cancer.

The young star looked fresh - faced and relaxed as she posed for photos with the film's writer and director Nikole Beckwith.

The Face of an Angel centers on a director (Bruhl), who is hired to make a film about a murder trial in Italy, but ends up finding love with a young bartender in the process.

At the film's press day, Collider spoke to actress Katee Sackhoff (who plays the mother of the siblings in flashbacks) for this exclusive interview about what attracted her to Oculus, being a fan of director Mike Flanagan's work, how she approached this character, her concerns about having to be intensely physical with the younger actors, and the technical challenges of the show.

He had a bad experience with his first film, 1996's Bottle Rocket, which he co-wrote with director Wes Anderson, and starred in alongside younger brother Luke.

The gifted young actress talks working with writer - director Nikole Beckwith, Wes Anderson's «The Grand Budapest Hotel», «Brooklyn», being at Sundance with two films, future plans and more.

Reduced by Refn almost to the point of abstraction — it could have been called Notes on a Rehearsal for an Action Movie — Drive may do little to win over multiplex crowds who prefer the fast and furious to the moody and languorous, but it reconfirms Refn as one of the most exciting young directors around, and Albert Brooks (stealing the film as a small - time Jewish gangster with an aversion to loose ends) as a national treasure.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: NR Director: Steven Soderbergh Actors: Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Rob Lowe Plot: Based on the autobiography, the film explores the relationship between Liberace and his six - year relationship with young lover Scott Thorson.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

From Academy Award ® winning director Roger Ross Williams, Life, Animated is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films.

These aren't younger directors auditioning for studio films.

But while director Oliver Hirschbiegel («DasExperiment») very effectively takes youdeep inside Nazi Germany's crumbling heart and brings many infamous momentsacutely to life, his film doesn't offer much in the way of new insight.The script is more of a textbook play - by - play than an examination of impulsesand psyches, and while the Hirschbiegel and his cast add those dimensionsthrough their fine work, it seems the only way he could invest the audiencein these events was by seeking out a sympathetic minor character — inthe person of Hitler's young secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)-- and beef up her significance.

The second of 2015's collaborations with her real - life director boyfriend Noah Baumbach, Mistress America was one of the best films at the Sundance Film Festival, an old - school screwball comedy about a young woman who befriends her dad's new girlfriend.

In 1992, the USC film school alumnus became both the youngest person and the first African - American ever to land an Academy Award nomination in the Best Director category for Boyz N the Hood.

The theme of «Moonlight,» writer - director Barry Jenkins» melancholy meditation on one young man's coming - of - age, is summed up in an early scene in the film.